On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Paul Morrison wrote:

> Eduardo,
> The system is Ultra Enterprise 1 M170.

I just looked at the web page that lists the supported hardware and it
seems it could be more clear.  Here's the list of hardware that I know
work:

	UltraSPARC I, UltraSPARC II or UltraSPARC IIi CPUs
	zs serial/keyboard/mouse controllers
	esp SCSI controller
	cgsix graphics card 

In addition untested or non-functional drivers exist for:

	le 10Mb ethernet controller
	hme, SBus and PCI, 100Mb ethernet controller
	cs4231 audio controller (makes an annoying buzzing noise)
	bpp parallel port

> In the archives there is a kernel for the sparc64
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc64/
> But this supposedly had serious bugs.
> NETBSD 1.4.2 has no seperate port for sparc64 but states that the sparc port
> covers both.
> If the hardware is not supported could you please tell me where it states
> this.

1) Have you read the following?:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc64/snapshot/19990114/README

2) The NetBSD/sparc kernel or bootloaders will not work on SPARC v9
machines.  You will need to use a 32-bit NetBSD/sparc64 kernel and
bootloaders.

3) The kernel and miniroot need to be compatible:

The miniroot cannot be newer than the kernel.

Both need to be the same executable format (ELF or a.out).


Eduardo Horvath